Designated Safeguarding Lead - Scarborough, United Kingdom - North Yorkshire Council

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Job Title:
Designated Safeguarding Lead - Braeburn Primary and Nursery Academy, Eastfield Scarborough

Salary:
£35,745 - £38,223 per annum

Vacancy Hours: 37 hours per week, 52

weeks per year

Contract Type:
Permanent

Location:
Braeburn Primary and Nursery Academy, Eastfield Scarborough

Closing date:
Monday
**4th September 2023 at 12.00 noon


Interview date:
week

commencing 11th September 2023
About the Trust
Ebor Academy Trust is a family of schools located across
North and East Yorkshire, York and the Humber region. Our vision is to deliver high quality, rich
and engaging education at the heart of our diverse communities. To do this, we
are committed to building professional collaborations of best practice both across
and beyond the Trust. Through this, we
aim to enable all our learners to flourish, and to open doors for their best
futures.

We genuinely seek to live our values of Excellence,
Belonging, Opportunity and Respect, which underpin all we do.


About the role
Braeburn Primary and Nursery Academy are looking to recruit a
Designated Safeguarding Lead. This is a permanent full time position.

As the Designated Safeguarding Lead you will be passionate
about the wellbeing of young people, within this role you will work closely
with vulnerable children and their families to help and support them throughout
their time with us. You will need to have a calm, caring and compassionate
disposition and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of
professionals and families alike.

You will have the ability to lead a team, guiding other
staff members to allow them too confidently support a child who is receiving
child protection intervention. You will also help build a good strong and
effective safeguarding culture across the school and support staff in dealing
with any child protection concerns.

You will become the first point of contact for families
therefore you will need to build strong relationships, allowing you to offer
guidance and advice when needed. You will need to have a sound knowledge of
support that is in place for vulnerable children and families to enable you to
signpost them to relevant services as and when needed.

There will be times where you have to have open discussions
where you may need to deliver difficult messages, you will need to have the
interpersonal skills to allow you to do this in a sensitive and tactful way.


The job requirements
You will work as part of the senior leadership team within
the school, making yourself available to help support and offer advice to other
staff members.

You will have a proven track record of successfully working
with vulnerable children and families ideally this will be from a social work
background.

You will have excellent interpersonal and communication
skills, both verbally and written, as you will need to keep detailed case notes
and records of each child and their families. Alongside this you will need to
understand the importance of confidentiality and have the ability to share
information on a need to know basis and in a discreet manner.

You will have had experience of supporting children either
in groups or on a one to one basis and have experience of implementing support
for social, emotional and mental health provision.

You will have a patient and caring nature allowing you stay
calm in the face of challenging behaviour and be able to deescalate situations
quickly and smoothly.


Working with us
All new starters with the Trust receive a thorough induction
programme, followed by a programme of training which is essential to the
role. But it doesn't stop there, all
staff receive development on an ongoing basis and we actively encourage career
development through a range of CPD and longer programmes of learning, including
apprenticeships.

The Trust is striving to be an inclusive and diverse
organisation, where everyone feels able to be themselves and experiences a
strong sense of belonging. The Trust wholeheartedly supports the principle of
equality and diversity in employment and opposes all forms of unfair or
unlawful discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment,
marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or
belief, or sex. We encourage and support
the recruitment, retention and career development of people from as wide a
range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds and seek to
develop a community of staff that accurately represents society as a
with the Trust will be considered against the criteria outlined in the person
specification for the position advertised.


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